AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 501 595
Rank change year-on-year -52 +94 +187
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 29 42 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.080% 0.12% 0.029%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.24% 0.40% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 39 11
10th Percentile £354 £381 £525
25th Percentile £400 £381 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £650
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -38.46% +30.00%
75th Percentile £627 £611 £744
90th Percentile £786 £665 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £713
% change year-on-year +25.00% -43.86% +39.02%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,126 10,544 13,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.42% 29.53% 29.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,881 6,411 8,455
10th Percentile £306 £307 £300
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,015 505 755
10th Percentile £17.06 £18.94 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.23 £24.18 £27.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £45.46 £66.00 £67.66
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.90
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.01% +15.32%

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer in the UK

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -53 23 £475 +13.43% 3
UK excluding London -55 15 £500 +25.00% 3
London -3 10 £410 -32.51%
Work from Home -4 7 £400 -23.44% 1
North of England -60 6 £526 +31.38% 1
Scotland +8 4 £475 +23.38%
South West -12 4 £750 +15.38%
Yorkshire -63 3 £892 +123.00%
Midlands - 2 £892 - 1
North West - 2 £374 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £892 - 1
North East - 1 £575 -
East of England - 1 £475 -

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (55.17%) Serverless
3 10 (34.48%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (34.48%) Amazon S3
3 10 (34.48%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (31.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (31.03%) Azure
5 8 (27.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (27.59%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (27.59%) GitHub
6 7 (24.14%) GCP
6 7 (24.14%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (20.69%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (20.69%) AWS CodeBuild
7 6 (20.69%) Datadog
7 6 (20.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (13.79%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (10.34%) Route 53
10 1 (3.45%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) DNS
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (17.24%) DynamoDB
3 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 13 (44.83%) GitLab
1 13 (44.83%) Jenkins
2 7 (24.14%) Git
3 4 (13.79%) Bitbucket
3 4 (13.79%) Liquibase
4 2 (6.90%) JIRA
5 1 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (44.83%) Finance
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Banking
3 4 (13.79%) Financial Institution
4 3 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (65.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (34.48%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (31.03%) AWS DevOps
4 8 (27.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 6 (20.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (17.24%) Senior
7 3 (10.34%) AWS Software Engineer
7 3 (10.34%) Reliability Engineer
7 3 (10.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 3 (10.34%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (10.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (6.90%) Lead
8 2 (6.90%) Lead DevOps
8 2 (6.90%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (3.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 1 (3.45%) SailPoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (17.24%) RESTful
3 4 (13.79%) REST
4 2 (6.90%) AWS CDK
4 2 (6.90%) boto
5 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.45%) LDAP
5 1 (3.45%) Node.js
5 1 (3.45%) SailPoint
5 1 (3.45%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (13.79%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (44.83%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (93.10%) CI/CD
2 27 (93.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (65.52%) Containerisation
4 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure Automation
4 10 (34.48%) Microservices
5 8 (27.59%) Cost Optimisation
5 8 (27.59%) Observability
5 8 (27.59%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (24.14%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (24.14%) High Availability
6 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (20.69%) Agile
7 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (20.69%) Cost Management
7 6 (20.69%) FinOps
7 6 (20.69%) Incident Response
7 6 (20.69%) Non-Functional Testing
8 5 (17.24%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (75.86%) Python
2 13 (44.83%) Bash
3 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
4 5 (17.24%) Go
4 5 (17.24%) Java
5 3 (10.34%) SQL
6 1 (3.45%) Perl
6 1 (3.45%) Ruby
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
3 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
4 8 (27.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (13.79%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Azure Certification
5 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (13.79%) Degree
5 4 (13.79%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (3.45%) CISSP
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.45%) NCSC
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 17 (58.62%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (79.31%) Kubernetes
1 23 (79.31%) Terraform
2 12 (41.38%) Ansible
2 12 (41.38%) Grafana
2 12 (41.38%) Prometheus
3 4 (13.79%) Puppet
4 3 (10.34%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (6.90%) Opsgenie
5 2 (6.90%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.45%) Argo
6 1 (3.45%) linkerd
6 1 (3.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Splunk
2 4 (13.79%) Dynatrace
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.45%) ForgeRock
4 1 (3.45%) Okta
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) Ping Identity
4 1 (3.45%) SaltStack